Tog Season is Here! by Larry Leary

Posted on August 4, 2022 by VHFC

We did a late day trip and left my dock at 1:30 heading for several wrecks off BI. We had quite a number of throw backs, so we decided to fish the inlet rocks which produced 5 nice keepers to 16-1/2” by Tyler.
Tide Conditions were ideal and having a Rhodan trolling motor helped tremendously. We also had a professional Tog fisherman with us – Max from Fisherman Headquarters. This man knows how to catch Tog!! We were back to the dock by 8PM.

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